u/abcdberry

I’m sure this is a repeat but looking for how I can open my old 2004 era SONAR Cakewalk projects. I have an old windows 32 machine under vmware (not the original image or lic) that I can install Sonar 2 on ,which I think is my best bet, but don’t have a license. I tried the REAPER CWP plugin on that same old win32 machine but got lots of errors. There is a fair bit of midi drums which may be the issue with the that but it could be because it’s on an ancient win32 image. I’m just looking for what my options are free or not to poen those projects up again somehow.

Editing post to clarify the heads are not touching the tape vs saying the heads are not moving up. I have an Onkyo TA-RW311 duel cassette deck that is in pretty good shape with the cassettes playing ff etc but the tape heads do not touch the tape so it doesn't play. This happens on both sides so likely not mechanical. I'm a tinkerer, not an electrician but can pen things up, clean and do easy repairs if I know what to do. I have a multimeter and can use it if need be but not very experienced with it. The service manual is linked below. Does anyone have any pointers on where to start? Thanks much in advance. -db

https://dn710203.ca.archive.org/0/items/manual_TARW311_SM_ONKYO_EN/TARW311_SM_ONKYO_EN_text.pdf